And thank you also to the staff for the beautiful flowers. All right. So, again, i think theres a couple other things well be together on stuff. Dave is going to work us through the last pieces on this, on our agenda, which are number 13, if we can move to item 13. 13, Public Notice of 2014 subscription and renewal of commission on the environment and committee notices and agendas as required by the commission on the environment bylaws. And in the packet is a copy of the subscription request form, and this is new information and discussion item. The notice was issued pursuant to the commission on the environments dialogue article 13, request for notice and agendas as follows. Request a member of the media or public to receive notice of the agenda for agenda packets for commission or Committee Meetings must be in writing [speaker not understood] what the person would like to receive and whether email is preferred. Such request shall be valid until the following january. January of each
Commission on the environment. Today is tuesday, january 28th. It is 5 10 p. M. First item on the agenda is roll call. Commission president joshua arce . Here. Commission Vice President [speaker not understood] is excused. Commissioner ruth gravanis . Here. Commissioner [speaker not understood] . Here. Commissioner Heather Stephenson . Here. Commissioner heather wall . Here. [speaker not understood] . Here. Next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes of the november 12, 2013 commission on the environment special meeting retreat and december 3, 2013 rescheduled meeting. Commissioners, in your packet you have november 12 and december 3rd draft minutes. This is a discussion and action item. ~ colleagues, unless there is any discussion, can i get a motion to approve the minutes . Motion. So moved. Seconded. By commissioner wan [speaker not understood]. All those in favor say aye 2a aye. It is approved. [speaker not understood]. Next item on the agenda there is [speaker not understoo
Like renewable electricity where youre taking already whats connected to the home, its already connected to the building and youre just changing the quality of it, thats a lot easier to do. Its a lot cheaper to do. So, 100 renewable. We could think of that in terms of natural gas also. We just arent that many dairy farms out there that we can pump the gas and the lines and start promoting green gas. So, the replacing the 100 renewable in our plan is going to be difficult. Now, there are some things that we can do around the edges. One of the slices there is bart 100 renewable by 2030. We can get them to go green, thats great. We have another 11 of the electricity that are direct Access Commercial customers where they could decide as businesses that the right thing for them to do is to go 100 green. So, if we can convince them, and that would be a voluntary activity on their part, that we might be able to reach another piece of the market. The question is how are we going to get to the
Where should we look . Look both ways. Wow, thank you so much. Can i just say thank you so much to our mayor ed lee for this wonderful honor of getting my very own day and for this proclamation. As i said before, its really been a fantastic honor to serve and be part of the city and county of san francisco. And, again, thank you to all the commissioners, but really thank you to the mayor. This is really a really fantastic surprise. So, thank you. applause okay. So, where do we go . So, thank you all. Thank you. Carry on with the rest of the meeting. Thank you so much for the surprise. [multiple voices] i second that motion. Melanie is the only person ive ever known who got a day. Whos was the first person . John [speaker not understood]. [laughter] what day is it today . Melanie nutter day. We tried we got i think in 2009, we got [speaker not understood], we had one of the days under gavin, and it was late at night. And we used it my board and i to see if we could get a free beer from
Evening everyone, welcome to the San Francisco commission on the environment. Today is tuesday 24th and it is 5 08 p. M. And we ask you that you turn off your cell phones and the first item on the agenda is roll call. Colleagues you will remember that we met our two newest colleagues, josefowitz and wan. And i remember when i was new to the commission and wanting to get to know everybody quickly and wanting the folks to get to know me and not having that chance last time, this was just a brief item just to meet our newest commissioners and when we have our retreat we will learn more about each other. But if we could just learn quickly a little bit about josefowitz, and welcome to the commission. And then commissioner wan. Thank you, so much. President , arce. And i am thrilled to be here and the background and i have developed and built the solar power plants and some of the expertise that i hope to bring to the commission and to the department and to the city. I think that we have tre